Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Facilitation, Group Cohesiveness, Social Dilemma

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

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Informational social influence: we do so because we believe that others" interpretation of a situation provides important info that we may lack. People can internalize other people"s interpretation of a situation is correct. Everyone has their sausages on the plate, and no one eats waffle in the buffet. So you may like getting sausage too instead of the waffle, Sausages could be instead really delicious ( info you are missing ) Conference posters and food, the alarms starts going on, followed by an announcement like not clear people look at each other, but nobody else is moving, so you decide ( not a fire ? ) Once one experts motivates you to leave you leave soon because you feel like they should know. People doing things in front of other people, mostly because of the social content. Famous study: asch did it in 1951, 1956. Normative social influence - not conforming has a cost,